The writings I’ve posted since returning home have been focused on change. Change, of course, comes in many forms, and the two changes I have written of are the geographical move from exile, prison, to my land Beulah and about the emotional change within myself as I began living the new life God has given…
Tag: Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Life On The Inside – Part 2
A Leg Up In the first entry of this series I wrote about the ways I spend my time. In this, the second installment I’ll write about rehabilitation opportunities and their effectiveness. If you’re in prison and have a drug case or if you have a documented drug or alcohol problem and it contributed to…
Blessed In Exile
Here we are at the final installment for this series of postings. It has been, for me, an arduous task of writing about very difficult topics. My plate of spaghetti has many other strands that I have to chew through in my healing process, but after today we can sop up the sauce of this…
Pasta For One, But Many To Feed
In Life Is Like A … Bowl Of Spaghetti and Spaghetti … And A Few Meatballs you read about the history of sexual abuse I suffered as well as the initial mental illness. Here you’ll read how that mental illness manifested itself and grew into my adult life. At age fifteen two new people became visible to…
Spaghetti … And A Few Meatballs
In part one of this posting, Life Is Like A … Bowl Of Spaghetti, I wrote of being raped at age 5 by a boy of 14 and why I never revealed this horrible experience to my parents or any adult. Here I’ll talk about the impacts of that decision … and the meatballs added to…
Life Is Like A … Bowl Of Spaghetti
As I prepared and had posted the writing on healing and prayer (It’s All About The Healing & The Healing Continues), I realized that such a posting might not make sense in its entirety unless I wrote and posted more about myself. With that realization came a not so simple question: Where do I begin?…
A Journey Begun
Welcome. It is one of my sincerest hopes that you will walk my journey with me and find your way out of whatever wilderness, prison, captivity, or exile you find yourself living. I’ve begun and am already becoming renewed into a new life. Unbelievably, I’m finding true freedom behind the razor wire topped fencing. I hope you’ll enjoy your time here.